Pressure mounts on Mason lawmaker to resign from his seat in Ohio House

11:02 AM,
Feb. 14, 2014

State Rep. Peter Beck, of Mason

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A powerful state lawmaker from Mason, a secretive Linwood church, its pastor and her business face dozens felony charges, potentially decades of jail time and the possible forfeiture of a "castle" owned by the church.

State Rep. Peter Beck, R-Mason, now faces a total of 69 felony counts and is under pressure to resign his General Assembly seat. A Hamilton County indictment alleges Beck helped bilk investors of hundreds of thousands of dollars as chief financial officer of an insolvent West Chester software startup owned by the late Cincinnati money manager Thomas M. Lysaght. Beck also is ...